The boot counter is a uint8_t single-byte counter stored in the first NVM byte position (`micrcontroller.nvm[0]`). The counter increments by 1 each time the board boots, regardless if it's a hard or soft reset.
Enable the boot counter by adding `#define CIRCUITPY_BOOT_COUNTER 1` to your board's mpconfigboard.h file. Note that an error will be thrown during the build if `CIRCUITPY_INTERNAL_NVM_SIZE` is not also set within mpconfigboard.h.
Call `supervisor.disable_ble_workflow()` and the BLE workflow will
be disabled until the chip is reset.
This also includes a couple fixes:
1. Terminals can now be deinit by setting the tilegrid to NULL. This
prevents using the tilegrid before display is init.
2. Fix BLE serial send amount when sending more than a single packet.
Fixes#5049
A pointer to the FIL structure was kept after it went out of scope.
Apparently this happened to work until cf97793 added the `result`
variable that clobbered it.
Fixes#5062
nRF CircuitPython boards will now provide the file transfer
service defined here: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_BLE_File_Transfer
USB capable boards will only advertise if previously bonded to a
device or if the reset button is pressed during the fast blue
flashes on start up. When pressed, the board will restart again but
the blue period will not flash.
Boards without USB will always advertise.
When previously bonded, the advertisement is private so that no
other peers can connect. If advertising publicly, the tx power is
lowered to reduce the likelihood of bonding from a distance.
This PR also fixes issues with loading identities of bonded peers
so that our address can now be resolved and we can resolve others'
addresses when scanning.
This also removes the need to pin share because we don't use the
status LED while user code is running.
The status flashes fallback to the HW_STATUS LED if no RGB LED is
present. Each status has a unique blink pattern as well.
One caveat is the REPL state. In order to not pin share, we set the
RGB color once. PWM and single color will be shutoff immediately but
DotStars and NeoPixels will hold the color until the user overrides
it.
Fixes#4133
When `reload_requested` is detected, the run reason will no longer be
automatically overwritten as an AUTO_RELOAD, making SUPERVISOR_RELOAD a
detectable reload reason. Autoreload now sets the reload reason itself.
